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Corporal Punishment of Disabled Students

The ACLU and Human Rights Watch released a new report, Impairing Education, about the corporal punishment of students with disabilities in public schools. The author of the report, Alice Farmer, and ACLU Racial Justice Program staff attorney Catherine Kim discuss the corporal punishment of students with disabilities in public schools, and alternatives to this type of discipline.

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